As with most Apple products, the iPad is built from some of the best hardware widely available (depending on your criteria) and has been advertised exceptionally well. In spite of the deluge of predictions that it would change “everything,” there seems to be comparatively little deep effect on the tech industry. It feels more like a novelty—something to carry around in addition to ones usual load but not replacing anything. It could theoretically do so much, so why do people seem to select the “lesser” tools, even when an iPad is available?
I recently discovered the central flaw for my experiences with the iPad, which I believe also shapes many other users’ “enjoyable indifference” (for lack of a better description) to the iPad as a general tool.